Post-Lupin
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jun 7, 2016 17:06:29 GMT -5
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 7, 2016 17:22:02 GMT -5
Is the moral
a) Pimps don't commit suicide
b) Pineapples don't have sleeves
If it isn't either, I don't want to know.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Jun 7, 2016 21:19:18 GMT -5
Welp, won't be seeing that biopic.
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Post by starforge on Jun 7, 2016 21:24:20 GMT -5
I want to see a film about that. Sounds actually interesting. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jun 8, 2016 4:43:22 GMT -5
I want to see a film about that. Sounds actually interesting. Yes, the story is fascinating and Rumi is one of the great writers of all time. But... not like this. |
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Post by starforge on Jun 8, 2016 5:40:05 GMT -5
I want to see a film about that. Sounds actually interesting. Yes, the story is fascinating and Rumi is one of the great writers of all time. But... not like this. Oh, I meant the parable itself. |
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jun 8, 2016 6:23:48 GMT -5
Yes, the story is fascinating and Rumi is one of the great writers of all time. But... not like this. Oh, I meant the parable itself. Your mum is amazing in the original version. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jun 11, 2016 0:46:10 GMT -5
Ugh. I want to say that it is surprising that writers could even think this was a good idea considering the current state of culture. However, it isn't really surprising. Alas.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 11, 2016 0:55:59 GMT -5
Ugh. I want to say that it is surprising that writers could even think this was a good idea considering the current state of culture. However, it isn't really surprising. Alas. I'm just surprised the studio gave anything Persian the go-ahead at all. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 11, 2016 17:40:35 GMT -5
It sounds to me like the sort of movie they’d make in the forties, supposedly for some highbrow cred, but they just use the story to up making a formulaic romance for two mid-level studio stars with some nice costumes and sets (but future-important-actor plays a bit part and there’s some progressive gay subtext if you look closely because the screenwriter, like so many of the day, kept both his sex life and his erudition in the closet). Better than you thought it would be when you catch it at 4AM on TCM.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 11, 2016 19:49:10 GMT -5
It sounds to me like the sort of movie they’d make in the forties, supposedly for some highbrow cred, but they just use the story to up making a formulaic romance for two mid-level studio stars with some nice costumes and sets (but future-important-actor plays a bit part and there’s some progressive gay subtext if you look closely because the screenwriter, like so many of the day, kept both his sex life and his erudition in the closet). Better than you thought it would be when you catch it at 4AM on TCM. A few decades off, but that puts me strongly in mind of The Wind and the Lion, a movie that turned a true story of an international hostage crisis into a romance by changing the mark's gender, Patch Adams-style. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jun 12, 2016 22:35:26 GMT -5
You know, Islam has been a major concern of the United States and by consequence, Hollywood, for well over a decade now (if I'm just counting the post-9/11 films and not going all the way back to Rudolph Valentino's Sheik.) You'd think that perhaps in all that time and interest there'd have emerged a large, well known body of Middle Eastern/Islamic actors who would have sufficient star power to anchor a project like this, but truthfully you can probably count them on one hand; and none of them ever had the sheer impact of, well, Omar Sharif. And speaking of Omar Sharif: It sounds to me like the sort of movie they’d make in the forties, supposedly for some highbrow cred, but they just use the story to up making a formulaic romance for two mid-level studio stars with some nice costumes and sets (but future-important-actor plays a bit part and there’s some progressive gay subtext if you look closely because the screenwriter, like so many of the day, kept both his sex life and his erudition in the closet). Better than you thought it would be when you catch it at 4AM on TCM. I like making fun of these* (like the time I linked all those old Genghis Khan trailers) but boy, it hasn't changed all that much, has it. *I also truthfully enjoy watching them. |
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